The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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Page viii
... manner in which Mr. Bryan is accused by leading monometallic journals and speakers of wanting to pay gold debts in silver and all current dollar debts in ' fifty cent dollars ' does not appear explicable , except by supposing the ...
... manner in which Mr. Bryan is accused by leading monometallic journals and speakers of wanting to pay gold debts in silver and all current dollar debts in ' fifty cent dollars ' does not appear explicable , except by supposing the ...
Page xiv
... manner in which the Act of 1816 orders the charge to be made , in case of the mint being re - opened to the public for the unlimited coinage of silver . I have commented on this as one of the subordinate errors of Lord Liverpool showing ...
... manner in which the Act of 1816 orders the charge to be made , in case of the mint being re - opened to the public for the unlimited coinage of silver . I have commented on this as one of the subordinate errors of Lord Liverpool showing ...
Page xviii
... manner which has had no parallel in history since the Emperor Helio- President Grant , who signed the Act which demonetised silver in 1873 , did not know six months later that any such legislation was even yet on the statute books ...
... manner which has had no parallel in history since the Emperor Helio- President Grant , who signed the Act which demonetised silver in 1873 , did not know six months later that any such legislation was even yet on the statute books ...
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... manner that the correctness of the term may , I think , be now considered to be more firmly established than it has ever been before . Though one - half only of the Royal Commission have de- clared absolutely in favour of bimetallism ...
... manner that the correctness of the term may , I think , be now considered to be more firmly established than it has ever been before . Though one - half only of the Royal Commission have de- clared absolutely in favour of bimetallism ...
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... manner in which the Duke appears to have kept the subject constantly in mind makes it more evident than before that Sir Robert Peel had realised the fact that in guiding Par- liamentary legislation in 1816 he had been misled by the ...
... manner in which the Duke appears to have kept the subject constantly in mind makes it more evident than before that Sir Robert Peel had realised the fact that in guiding Par- liamentary legislation in 1816 he had been misled by the ...
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